Teaching DNA with Technology

Can anyone suggest creative ways to use technology to present the concept of DNA to high school aged students?

Tags: DNA, biology, double, education, helix, high, school, teaching, technology

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Permalink Reply by Mike Mules on August 13, 2009 at 11:26pm

I second the University of Utah's resources. Very, very nice. You should also be able to find a number of decent animations of dna replication, electrophoresis etc... on Youtube.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Nielsen on June 18, 2009 at 5:39am

I write about a great site in my post
23andMe Provides Authentic and Personalized Learning Opportunities .... You don't have to sign up for the service to use the site. There is great information there shared in interesting ways and it is authentic. The company was started by the wife of one of the founders of Google.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Harper-Smith on August 13, 2009 at 8:46pm

I use a bunch of different web resources during our genetics unit... I've listed a bunch of them below (there are a few more on our class website links page - http://sfsbiology.edublogs.org/links/)

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/dna50/index.html - primary literature from the discovery of the double helix
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/ - tutorials and animations about different genetics concepts
http://www.dnalc.org/home.html - lots of good resources
http://www.genome.gov/10001772 - homepage of the human genome project
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ - University of Utah a great page with lots of animations, tutorials, resources, and projects (my students get really into the Newborn Genetic Screening project when we're looking at genetic disorders)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/ - focused on Rosalind Franklin